Semantic Interoperability for Electronic Business through a Novel Cross-Context Semantic Document Exchange Approach

Abstract

The E-marketplace is a common place where entities situated in different contexts conduct business electronically. Since sellers and buyers may be located in areas with different languages, customs and even business standards, business documents may be heterogeneously edited and parsed in different contexts. However, so far, no desirable approaches have been implemented to transfer a document from one context to another without generating ambiguity and disputes may arise due to different interpretation towards to the same document. Thus, it is important to guarantee consistent understanding among different contexts. This paper proposes a cross-context semantic document exchange approach, Tabdoc approach, as a novel strategy in implementing semantic interoperability. It guarantees consistent business document understanding and realizes automatic cross-context document processing. The experimental results demonstrate promising performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods.